House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries does not feel President Joe Biden pulled the rug out from under House Democrats' feet by agreeing to veto the Washington, D.C. crime bill should it pass the Senate.
"We have a House, we have a Senate, and we have a White House," Jeffries said on CNN's State of the Union."We have to see what happens in the United States Senate next week. Depending on what the Senate does, the president will have to respond one way or the other.
"I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule — but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward," Biden tweeted."If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did — I’ll sign it." "That's a principle that I've supported from the moment that I arrived in Washington, D.C. It's one of the reasons why I believe in DC statehood, and in this particular case, I voted to affirm local rule."
"There are public conversations, and there are private conversations," Jeffries said."I do know is that Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has said she looks forward to talking to President Biden about his position they may agree to disagree. And at the end of the day, that's fine."
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